Abraham Lincoln vs Joseph Stalin: who would win in a fist fight?
Pick the winner and how they win (TKO, DQ or decision), then see how everyone else called it.
Abraham Lincoln
“Honest Abe” · United States · 1809–1865 · 6′4″ (193 cm), about 181 lb (82 kg)
16th US President and commander-in-chief through the Civil War. As a young man, a feared frontier wrestler said to have lost only once in about 300 matches. In the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Joseph Stalin
“Uncle Joe” · Georgia / Soviet Union · 1878–1953 · about 5′5″ (165 cm), about 165 lb (75 kg)
Dictator of the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1953. Led the USSR to victory over Nazi Germany while his purges, famines and labour camps killed millions. His left arm was stiff and shortened from childhood.
The crowd
Nobody has called this one yet.
The AI’s verdict (spoiler)
Stalin by DQ. Lincoln, a full 28 cm taller, jabs over Stalin's stiff left arm all night with ease. But old frontier instincts take over: he scoops Stalin into a textbook throw, and the referee disqualifies him on the spot, gifting Stalin the win.
Fair fight? Hold the rematch under catch-as-catch-can wrestling rules, the sport Lincoln actually mastered, instead of a boxing ring.
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